Getting a decimal point in the wrong place “makes no difference”, according to a Conservative Party spokesman, after a document issued by the party multiplied the number of teenag

“Don’t have a Caesarean unless you must” said the headlines on stories about a new study from the World Health Organisation, published in The Lancet.

Whitehall is better armed with data on children who no longer exist than on those that can expect to live for the next 80 years.

More than 90 per cent of women are denied choice in where they give birth, charges the National Childbirth Trust in a new report.

Was Barack Obama born in the USA? The records say he was, but there are plenty of US citizens who don’t believe it.

All’s fair in opposition politics, but the Conservatives really pushed the boundaries with their claim that women were being forced to give birth in the lift because of cheeseparing in the NHS.